Having taken an interest in his case in the past, I had better record that Otis (son of Bryan) Ferry has been freed on bail after, in the words of the Cotswold Journal: after he spent four months in jail while awaiting trial on charges of ‘nobbling’ witnesses set to testify in a case involving the alleged assault of a fox hunt monitor near Stow.

All we have left are corporations owned by other corporations, with layers or bureaucracy shielding them from publishing actual ideas. worth reading • from the Guardian - Ian McEwan reveals how he gave Salman Rushdie shelter in a Cotswold cottage just after fatwa was issued. at

The brasserie restaurant, the Swan, is increasingly well-regarded and the ground-floor bar menu includes a limited number of affordable appetising dishes, such as Cotswold Legbar poached eggs on toast and a daily savoury tart with chips and salad (£5-£7), as well snacks like scotch eggs and sausages cooked in rioja (£4-£5).

The quality of Britishness in the festival was not achieved by random manifestations in northern cities and Cotswold hamlets, but in the way that people from the provinces were drawn to a previously disregarded riverside stretch of London by a contrived public and political event that pulled off the trick of appearing to be improvised and liberating.

In the 1930s, Cheltenham unveiled the iron men: Fred Rimell, Fulke Walwyn and Frenchie Nicholson, who were to thrive as trainers, and a tradition was born of intrepid jockeyship that found its natural stage on this undulating Cotswold ground.